PERTH AMBOY, NJ [St John The Baptist Orthodox Church] -- St. John’s Church is pleased to announce that the dedication and blessing of the Habitat for Humanity Memorial Building Project which will take place on Wednesday, December 07, 2016 will be live broadcast beginning at 5:30 pm EST (4:30 pm Central) .

Diocesan faithful and friends are cordially invited to watch the dedication and blessing ceremony on facebook or on the diocesan website.

A highlight of the dedication and blessing ceremony will be the presence of Pani Susan Rosco, and a delegation from St. John's parish led by Fr. Michael Chendorain. Read more...

The Orthodox Church has been sharing the Gospel and welcoming an ever-increasing number of people into the Body of Christ for more than 2000 years. For God’s glory, this work continues today. “To the Ends of the Earth” shares this miraculous and inspiring work and introduces you to our growing family in Christ around the world.

If a tree is known by its fruit, and a good tree bears good fruit (Mt. 7:17; Luke 6:44), then is not the Mother of Goodness Itself, She who bore the Eternal Beauty, incomparably more excellent than every good, whether in this world or the world above? Therefore, the coeternal and identical Image of Goodness, Pre-eternal, transcending all being, He Who is the pre-existing and good Word of the Father, moved by His unutterable love for mankind and compassion for us, put on our image, that He might reclaim for Himself our nature which had been dragged down to uttermost Hades, so as to renew this corrupted nature and raise it to the heights of Heaven. For this purpose, He had to assume a flesh that was both new and ours, that He might refashion us from out of ourselves. Now He finds a Handmaiden perfectly suited to these needs, the supplier of Her own unsullied nature, the Ever-Virgin now hymned by us, and Whose miraculous Entrance into the Temple, into the Holy of Holies, we now celebrate. God predestined Her before the ages for the salvation and reclaiming of our kind. She was chosen, not just from the crowd, but from the ranks of the chosen of all ages, renowned for piety and understanding, and for their God-pleasing words and deeds. Read more...

Latest Episode (12/8/16) Be the Bee #114 | The HOPE Project (Project for Awesome 2016) Human trafficking is a big problem all over the world. In this year's Project for Awesome, we're supporting the HOPE Project, a new program that connects survivors of human trafficking housing, occupations, potential, and empowerment.

Visit www.orthodoxgoods.com the official on-line store of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese of the USA. At Orthodox Goods you may purchase items from Christ the Saviour Seminary Bookstore, Gloria Incense and The Liturgical Publications Department of the Diocesan Chancery.

“for a wide door for effective work has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.” (1Corinthians 16: 9 RSV)

The early Christians who accepted the Gospel were expected to change their lives. They were signing onto something that required their total loyalty. Fr. Michael Kiser in his book, Spread the Word, says “they were to become holy in the truest sense of the word – set apart from the world around them, living by different priorities from the rest of their community.” But why?

The early Christians conquered the known world in less than three hundred years. How did they do this when they were under constant persecution? They did it by leading purpose filled lives. They spread the Gospel to all who would listen. Is that not what Christ told the first Church, the Seventy? He told them to go throughout the world spreading the word. Read more...